Underground Railroad - Common Core Lessons and Activities

You are purchasing the paperback format of this book. How to Use the Underground Railroad - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Underground Railroad - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Underground Railroad - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
The Underground Railroad: Reading Informational Text GO5
Friends of the Underground...: Reading Informational Text
Underground Codes: Writing
Narrative of Henry Bibb: Primary Source Analysis GO5
A Difficult Decision: Reading Informational Text
Slave Inventory: Data Analysis
Railroad Routes: Map Activity
Tracks of the Underground Railroad: Problem-Solution-Results G
Surprising Escapes: Compare & Contrast
Escape Quotations: Summarizing Information
The Fugitive Slave Act: Primary Source Analysis
Captured!: Primary Source Analysis
The North Changes: Cause & Effect
Song of the Free: Primary Source Analysis
The Power of the Pen: Reading Informational Text GO4
Influential People: Graphic Organizer G
Underground Railroad Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizers